Dear colleagues,

The European GENNESYS¹ project has provided a European and worldwide vision for future strategies in nanoscience and nanotechnology in order to master the grand challenges of our society. Together with more than 600 authors from universities, research labs and industry GENNESYS has composed detailed research and technology roadmaps devising a new strategic role for the existing and emerging research infrastructures which are mandatory, should we overcome the key barriers in the development of advanced nanomaterials for better technologies.

The International GENNESYS Congress on Nanotechnology and Research Infrastructures will be held in Barcelona on 26^th-28^th May 2010 under the auspices of the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Spain, during the Spanish EU-Presidency. The congress will bring together renowned experts and key decision and policy makers to highlight and discuss the major conclusions and recommendations of the GENNESYS foresight project.

The GENNESYS Congress will also make key recommendations on how to structure and organize nanomaterials development in Europe and to promote a new culture in the world of nanomaterials in which research-discoveries will smoothly be transferred into industrial innovations by human-resource networks around modern research infrastructure platforms.

Topics and speakers of the Congress will be carefully selected by our Scientific and Industrial Advisory Board and by the International GENNESYS Council. Each topic will be strategically discussed in a panel of worldwide scientific and political representatives.

The posters sessions and industrial exhibition at GENNESYS Congress will turn the Congress into the “meeting point” for worldwide research institutes, universities, companies and research infrastructures who work in  the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The Congress will provide an excellent platform to present institutions and organizations in front of an international audience and get in contact with other members of this community.

We look forward to welcome you at GENNESYS Congress in Barcelona.

Helmut Dosch - GENNESYS Chairman
Jordi Marquet - Congress Chairman